Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

"After introducing plural logic and its main applications, the book provides a systematic analysis of the relation between this logic and other theoretical frameworks such as set theory, mereology, higher-order logic, and modal logic."

Florio, Salvatore, and Øystein Linnebo, The Many and the One: A Philosophical Study of Plural Logic (Oxford, 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Sept. 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791522.001.0001, accessed 4 Dec. 2023. #OpenAccess #OA #Philosophy #Language #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Logic #NonFiction #Academic #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon (67)

"We consider two interacting systems when one is treated classically while the other system remains quantum. Consistent dynamics of this coupling has been shown to exist, and explored in the context of treating space-time classically. Here, we prove that any such hybrid dynamics necessarily results in decoherence of the quantum system, and a breakdown in predictability in the classical phase space."

Oppenheim, J., Sparaciari, C., Šoda, B. et al. Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity. Nat Commun 14, 7910 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43348-2 #OpenAccess #OA #Academic #Science #Research #STEM #Physics #QuantumPhysics @physics @science

"Our results show that forcing by warm ocean water can cause the rapid onset of dynamic imbalance and increased ice discharge from glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula, highlighting the region’s sensitivity to future climate variability."

Wallis, B.J., Hogg, A.E., Meredith, M.P. et al. Ocean warming drives rapid dynamic activation of marine-terminating glacier on the west Antarctic Peninsula. Nat Commun 14, 7535 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42970-4 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Article #Earth #Environment #Antarctic #Marine #Ocean #Climate #ClimateChange #oceanography @science

"Y-chromosome results highlight a significant genetic differentiation between the North-Western and South-Eastern part of the Mediterranean, the Italian Peninsula occupying an intermediate position therein. In particular, Sicily and Southern Italy reveal a shared paternal genetic background with the Balkan Peninsula and the time estimates of main Y-chromosome lineages signal paternal genetic traces of Neolithic and post-Neolithic migration events."

Sarno S, Boattini A, Carta M, Ferri G, Alù M, et al. (2014) An Ancient Mediterranean Melting Pot: Investigating the Uniparental Genetic Structure and Population History of Sicily and Southern Italy. PLOS ONE 9(4): e96074. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096074 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #STEM #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Italy #Sicily #DNA #Paleogenetics #Europe #Anthropology #Biology #Academia @science @biology @anthropology

"This article presented empirical evidence for a statistically significant relationship between being part of the Roman Empire about 1700 years ago and current regional disparities in terms of quantity and quality of entrepreneurial activity, as well as innovation."

Michael Fritsch, Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl & Michael Wyrwich (2023) On the Roman origins of entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany, Regional Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2276341 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Economics #Economy #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #Business #Roman #Germany #Europe @econhist @economics

"We have documented more than 200 relative values of gold and silver across almost 3000 years (2500 bce–400 ce) to establish value benchmarks for essentially pure metal. Our aim is to improve understanding of ancient economies by enabling regional and temporal comparisons of these relative values."

Ross, J., & Bettenay, L. (2023). Gold and Silver: Relative Values in the Ancient Past. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774323000355 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Ancient #Gold #Silver #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Economy #History #Antiquity #Antiquidons @econhist @archaeodons @antiquidons

"The present article is then concerned with the standardisation of the apostrophe in the English orthographic system in the period 1600–1900 and pursues the following objectives: (a) to study the use and omission of the apostrophe in the expression of the past tense, the genitive case and the nominative plural in the period; (b) to assess the relationship between the three uses and their likely connections; and (c) to evaluate the likely participation of grammarians in the adoption and the rejection of each of these phenomena in English."

CALLE-MARTÍN, J., & PACHECO-FRANCO, M. (2023). ‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’: The apostrophe in the history of English. English Language & Linguistics, 1-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000552 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #English #Language #Linguistics #Philology #Grammar @linguistics

"Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse. Here we present a comprehensive theoretical framework of (anti)science belief formation and updating to account for the psychological factors that influence the acceptance or rejection of scientific messages."

Spampatti, T., Hahnel, U.J.J., Trutnevyte, E. et al. Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01736-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Report #Climate #ClimateChange #Disinformation #Psychology @science @psychology

"Our findings demonstrate a dampening effect on perceptual, emotional, and evaluative processing of presumed deepfake smiles, but not angry expressions, adding new specificity to the debate on the societal impact of AI-generated content."

Eiserbeck, A., Maier, M., Baum, J. et al. Deepfake smiles matter less—the psychological and neural impact of presumed AI-generated faces. Sci Rep 13, 16111 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42802-x #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Article #Digital #Data #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepFake #DeepFakes #Psychology @psychology

"The following review of the archeological and document evidence indicates that three events occurring in the first half of the first millennium BC trigger the emergence of a specialized and integrated classical economy after 500 BC: (i) growth in demand for silver as a medium of exchange in economies in the Near East; (ii) technical breakthroughs in hull construction and sailing rig in merchant shipping of the late Bronze Age; (iii) perfection of ferrous metallurgy into the European hinterland."

Grantham, G. (2021). THE PREHISTORIC ORIGINS OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION. Social Philosophy and Policy, 38(2), 261-306. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052522000140 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Economics #Philosophy #Economy #Europe #Trade #BronzeAge #IronAge #History #Agriculture #Writing #Literacy #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @econhist @philosophy

"The early alphabet developed in association with Western Asiatic (Canaanite) miners in Sinai (or, at least, was taken up by them) during the Middle Kingdom in the eighteenth century BC. We suggest that early alphabetic writing spread to the Southern Levant during the late Middle Bronze Age (with the Lachish Dagger probably being the earliest attested example), and was in use by at least the mid fifteenth century BC at Tel Lachish."

Höflmayer, F., Misgav, H., Webster, L., & Streit, K. (2021). Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: The ‘missing link’ from Tel Lachish. Antiquity, 95(381), 705-719. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.157 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BronzeAge #Writing #Archaeology #Antiquity #Epigraphy #History #Histodon #Histodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

"The Syriac language has, among all the Aramaic varieties, by far the largest number of terms for ‘comet’ or ‘meteor’. Is there a simple explanation for this fact?"

Stefanie Rudolf, “A great star falls”—cometology in Syriac language and literature, Journal of Semitic Studies, 2023;, fgad041, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad041 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Language #Languages #Literature #Linguistics #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

"The Y-chromosomal variation in South Kazakh clans indicates their common origin in 13th–14th centuries AD, in agreement with the traditional genealogy. Though genetically there were at least three ancestral lineages instead of the traditional single ancestor."

Zhabagin, M., Sabitov, Z., Tarlykov, P. et al. The medieval Mongolian roots of Y-chromosomal lineages from South Kazakhstan. BMC Genet 21 (Suppl 1), 87 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00897-5 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Article #Human #Genetics #Medieval #Kazakh #Mongol @science

"The primary objectives of this study were to assess the paternal genetic variation in Altaian Kazakh populations and their population histories, to understand the paternal origins of Kazakhs, and to elucidate the process by which this ethnic group formed."

Dulik MC, Osipova LP, Schurr TG (2011) Y-Chromosome Variation in Altaian Kazakhs Reveals a Common Paternal Gene Pool for Kazakhs and the Influence of Mongolian Expansions. PLOS ONE 6(3): e17548. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017548 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Article #Kazakh #Population #Genetics #PopulationGenetics #Asia @science

"Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record of over half a millennium within the entire northern littoral of the Mediterranean, from Greece to Iberia, incorporating archaeological, archaeometric, and bioarchaeological evidence."

Iacono, F., Borgna, E., Cattani, M. et al. Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC). J Archaeol Res 30, 371–445 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09165-1 #OpenAccess #OA #Reserach #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Mediterranean #Europe @archaeodons

🇲🇳 " We observed that our studied Mongolians were structured into three distinct genetic clusters possessing different genetic affinity with previous studied Inner Mongolians and Mongols and various Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestries: two subgroups harbored dominant Eastern Eurasian ancestry from Neolithic millet farmers of Yellow River Basin; another subgroup derived Eastern Eurasian ancestry primarily from Neolithic hunter-gatherers of North Asia."

Yang X, Sarengaowa, He G, Guo J, Zhu K, Ma H, Zhao J, Yang M, Chen J, Zhang X, Tao L, Liu Y, Zhang X-F and Wang C-C (2021) Genomic Insights Into the Genetic Structure and Natural Selection of Mongolians. Front. Genet. 12:735786. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.735786 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Mongolia #Mongolian #Genetics #Anthropology #Population #Asia #STEM #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @anthropology

MAIOCCHI, M. (2019). WRITING IN EARLY MESOPOTAMIA: The Historical Interplay of Technology, Cognition, and Environment. In A. C. LOVE & W. C. WIMSATT (Eds.), Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution (pp. 395–424). University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctvnp0krm.13 #OpenAccess #OA #Writing #Mesopotamia #Culture #History #Technology #Cognition #Environment #Academia #Academic #Academics

"During the last ten years writers from France, the United States and Spanish America, and, although rarely, also in other countries, have begun to use the terms Latin America, Latin American, for the old and proper terms Spanish America, Spanish American. A third term, Ibero America, Ibero American, is also used by recent writers. Which are the proper terms? Which should we use? In the following article I beg to discuss this matter briefly."

Espinosa, Aurelio M. “The Term Latin America.” Hispania 1, no. 3 (1918): 135–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/331596. #OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Language #Langauges #Words #Latin #America #English #Spanish

#Image attribution: E Pluribus Anthony at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LocationWHLatinAmerica.png

🇬🇧 "This article recovers some of the classical, constitutional, and religious languages of empire in early-modern Britain by a consideration of the period between the end of the first Anglo-Dutch war in 1654 and the calling of the second Protectoral Parliament in 1656."

Armitage, David. 1992. The Cromwellian Protectorate and the languages of empire. Historical Journal 35(3): 531-555. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3373617 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodon #Histodons #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #C17th #17thCentury #EarlyModern #Empire #Language #Languages @histodon @histodons

🇮🇷 "The results show an autochthonous but non-homogeneous ancient background mainly composed by J2a sub-clades with different external contributions. The phylogeography of the main haplogroups allowed identifying post-glacial and Neolithic expansions toward western Eurasia but also recent movements towards the Iranian region from western Eurasia (R1b-L23), Central Asia (Q-M25), Asia Minor (J2a-M92) and southern Mesopotamia (J1-Page08)."

Grugni V, Battaglia V, Hooshiar Kashani B, Parolo S, Al-Zahery N, et al. (2012) Ancient Migratory Events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-Chromosome Variation of Modern Iranians. PLOS ONE 7(7): e41252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041252 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Biology #Genetics #Ancient #Neolithic #DNA #Iran #MiddleEast #Eurasia #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @science